Hacker Say They Compromised ProtonMail. ProtonMail Says It's BS

Someone really has it out for Protonmail. Was nearly a week of ddos not long ago.

And this just seems like a smear campaign, (paying $20 per tweet to raise awareness?) rather than a researcher simply trying to get paid.

They already have a bug bounty program:

https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-bug-bounty-program/

Love the "hacker's" moral stance and then three lines later they are offering the data to the highest bidder. This sounds to me like an angry kid got hired by the competition.

Being in a security business, Protonmail has some incentive to demonstrate a capacity to repel attacks. In that sense, maybe it really is a hoax, in the sense that this is a PR stunt? The "hacker" is a staged personality?